Weekly Space Hangout - Feb 17: Space News Roundup and Samuel Mason of the Tesla Science Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbkQHJAvdkQ Streamed live on Feb 17, 2017. Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain ) Special Guest: No special guest this week, just space news! No, wait! We do have a special guest after all! It's is Samuel Mason, the Director of the Tesla Science Foundation, NJ Chapter. The mission of the Tesla Science Foundation is to establish and promote the recognition and awareness of Nikola Tesla's inventions, patents, theories, philosophies, lectures, and innovations. Regular guests: Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg ) Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier ) This week's stories: - Are humans going back to space? - When will the SLS be launching? - Our special guest shows up! - How do you fix the Big Bang's lithium problem? - Congress is told that NASA's exploration plans aren't sustainable. - Homegrown organic materials found on Ceres! - Building a computer that can survive on Venus. - Exomoons, exomoons, exomoons! Enter the code for this week into this site: https://cosmoquest.org/achievements/code for a chance to win. This week's code is wiroXr Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!